The state budget for 2025 provides UAH 1.6 billion for the purchase of school buses to maximise the number of children attending full-time education facilities, especially in rural areas.
Thus, the Government has recently approved the distribution of the state budget subvention to local budgets for the purchase of school buses in 2025 among the following regions: Vinnytsia – UAH 141.9 million, Volyn – UAH 112.1 million, Dnipropetrovsk – UAH 101.7 million, Zhytomyr – UAH 70.7 million, Zakarpattia – UAH 169.3 million, Zaporizhzhia – UAH 2.3 million, Ivano-Frankivsk – UAH 132.9 million, Kyiv – UAH 180.6 million, Kirovohrad – UAH 17.7 million, Lviv – UAH 132.9 million, Mykolaiv – UAH 23.5 million, Odesa – UAH 11.8 million, Poltava – UAH 82.9 million, Rivne – UAH 97.5 million, Sumy – UAH 30.8 million, Ternopil – UAH 68.9 million, Kharkiv – UAH 23.4 million, Khmelnytsky – UAH 21.4 million, Cherkasy – UAH 31.9 million, Chernivtsi – UAH 133.9 million and Chernihiv – UAH 11.7 million.
“From now on, the founders of educational institutions have an opportunity to purchase about 460 buses or renew the fleet of school buses that were destroyed as a result of the military aggression of the russian federation. This will ensure comfortable transportation of about 30,000 children to and from schools. This way, regular transportation of schoolchildren to educational institutions will be ensured, where children who live far from schools or in the de-occupied territories or have special educational needs will have a possibility to study full-time and get equal access to knowledge”, Deputy Minister of Finance Roman Yermolychev commented. (Government portal)